Public Libraries as Public Notary Office- Bookkeepers as Notary Officers

List of keywords

Library, Librarian, Notary officer, central system, government, unpublished books, published books, online library, authors, readers, book reading, notarization, rating, review, public, publication, validation, E-book, process chart, fee of notary, education, technology, roles and responsibility, benefits, challenges, issue, manuscripts.

Executive Summary

The primary purpose of having a library within a society is to provide enough services and resources to meet the needs of individuals and groups for personal as well as educational development. It plays a significant role in maintaining and developing a democratic society by providing individual access to a varied and wide range of knowledge, opinions, and ideas irrespective of the personal background of the readers. It is important that a public library actively supports literacy, which can be considered as the key to knowledge and education. The focus on the construction of libraries also plays a vital role in developing a nation. Considering the significance of the library in daily life, this paper intends to propose a plan for the development of the mechanism of the library. In other words, the current roles and responsibilities of the librarian in the 21stcentury can be said to as limited to organizing the materials, indexing and assembling databases or preparing new materials. As library is for the betterment of the public, it should provide some extra services. This plan involves providing librarians withpower such that they can authenticate and authorizingdocuments, files, writings, coins, manuscripts and maps, audio and video recordings. These pieces of information would include both published as well as unpublished ones. According to this plan, the librarians would be able to declare those works as original through the process of validation and then upload it. Nevertheless, before uploading the procedure, the central system would check the documents and the authentication process of the librarians, thereby rating it and then ensure whether they are eligible to upload or not. Finally, the readers would also be ableto review and provide feedback on the uploaded files. Hence the validation of the credentials would be done by three checking systems involving librarian, central system and the readers. This plan is expected to enrich the post and role of librarians within society. Further, it is supposed to provide benefits to the students and academicians for selecting the library as a career opportunity too. Finally, the authors and readers would be benefitted too by obtaining authenticated pieces of information.